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Riva Altman
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Esty Heller
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Penina Steinbruch
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Miriam Klein Adelman
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Lea Pavel
LifeLines
If you ever read any book about love languages, my mother’s picture should be on the opening of the chapter on gift giving
Mattie Weinberg
LifeLines
Fighting for our baby’s every breath, we gained just as much as we gave
C. Saphir
Big Questions
It’s really important to work hard, and part of that is to invest in yourself.
Sabrina Brick
Big Questions
A few things employers can do to help create a more meaningful — and profitable — workplace:
Avraham Markovich 
A Heaping Scoop
Do you have any tricks to keeping flowers fresh throughout Yom Tov?
Family Table Contributors
A Heaping Scoop
What’s a quick-but-special dinner you make when you want to go all out, like on Rosh Chodesh?
Family Table Readers
Diary Serial
“Dating is about meeting the person you’ll spend your life with. It deserves preparation”
Rachel Burnham with Bassi Gruen
Diary Serial
Feelings are a package deal — avoiding the hard ones means giving up the chance to feel the amazing ones
Rachel Burnham with Bassi Gruen
FF POV
Protektzia is baked into our society. Should it be?
Family First Readers
FF POV
Kids are overwhelmed, parents are overworked. Just whose job is this homework, anyway?
Family First Readers
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There is no laundry that needs to get done, no appointments to keep. And no dishes in the sink that need to be washed   I visit my daughter and her family. I sit on a couch that I don’t have to clean, close to children I don’t have to dress, and I open a

By Hanna Green

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I hadn’t known this, but apparently Kever Rochel closes every night from 10:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m.

By  Rivky Gartenhaus

LifeTakes

Yesterday, a day after Simchas Torah, a day after war broke out, I returned to Megillas Eichah

By Emmy Leah Zitter

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It’ll be over soon, and I’ll regret the missed opportunity. But still, I just don’t get to take the photos

By Esther Reiss

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I guess that’s why it’s okay to keep coming back to the same place; it doesn’t change, but we do

By Esther Kurtz

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You remember last year, and the year before, when you’d pleaded: Please, may next year be different

By Adina Weiss